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How to Choose a Baby Sleep Consultant (Beyond the Cookie-Cutter Advice)
Search for baby sleep advice in Singapore and you’ll notice the same handful of rules repeated everywhere, stated as if they’re universal law: stuff like blackout the room completely, never use a pacifier or any other “sleep crutch”, get baby into their own room as fast as possible, bedtime by 7pm sharp, the list goes…
Read MoreBreastfeeding Approaches and Goals, Explained
Breastfeeding Isn’t One Decision — It’s a Combination That Shifts Over Time Most breastfeeding advice tends to treat it as a single choice: are you nursing, or are you pumping? And then leaves “what happens”/your output as the result of that. In our view, there are actually two separate dimensions running alongside each other in…
Read MoreWhat a Confinement Nanny Can (and Can’t) Help With for Breastfeeding
The practice of confinement traces back to the traditional practice of “zuo yue zi” (坐月子, “sitting the month”) — a structured postpartum recovery period centered on the mother’s physical healing. A confinement nanny “yue sao” (月嫂) traditionally takes over newborn care, household tasks, and the preparation of warming, nourishing confinement meals, so a new mother’s…
Read MorePostpartum Care Options in Singapore
Once baby arrives, one of the biggest practical decisions a family faces is who helps look after mother and newborn during the postpartum period — and in Singapore, there’s genuinely more than one path. Broadly, families choose between four options: a live-in confinement nanny, help from mum or mum-in-law, a stay-out nanny or postpartum doula,…
Read MorePrivate vs. Group Antenatal Class in Singapore
If you’re pregnant and starting to look into antenatal classes, you’ve probably noticed there are two very different paths: a group class — whether run by a hospital or an independent provider — or a private, one-on-one class at home. Both cover similar ground — labour, breastfeeding, newborn care — but the experience of each…
Read MoreSleep Training Methods
Chances are, when you think of “sleep training”, you think of “cry it out”. Are they the same thing? Not quite. “Cry it out” is another name for Extinction, which is one specific method under “limited caregiver assistance” — one of two broad approaches to baby sleep. This post covers exactly that: limited-assistance approaches, and…
Read MoreSolutions for Bedwetting or Leaky Diapers
Some of you may know that we are offering a potty learning workshop in collaboration with Tiny Play Club tomorrow. One of the things I am going to be sharing is how the potty leaning journey with all 3 kids have been very different – how we used elimination communication (yes, new term! haha) with…
Read MoreHow to Sleep Train Your Child
All of us, from babies from ~4months old to adults, sleep in cycles. We start off drowsy, transition through light sleep, into deeper sleep, back into light sleep, and then we often wake up for a moment (even if we don’t remember it). “Sleeping through the night”, is hence not the “goal” of sleep training, since…
Read MoreHow to Choose the Best Breast Pump For You
With so many brands and models of electric breast pumps out there today, it can be quite confusing how to go about picking one. While googling for “best breast pump singapore”, choosing what your friends use or reading reviews might be some good ways to go about deciding, this post aims to help break down…
Read MoreWeeks 3-4 after Baby is Home
I’m continuing this series on routines which started with What To Do from Day 1, and continued to Weeks 2-3. Around the time baby turns one month old, baby is ready to stay awake for slightly longer than before, so below is a guide for timings to follow: Time Activity 7.00am Wake baby, change diaper and…
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